Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark speaks on the contradiction between the stated principles of American Democracy and the actions of the United States during the Gulf War, 1990-1991. He begins by pointing out how the celebrity status of T.E. Lawrence is false, and he actually sold out Iraq for English interests. The United States opposition to the Iraq invasion of Kuwait, he argues, is not a consistent response to aggression around the world. The conscience we developed about the brutality of war during Vietnam has been lost. The United States sought to destroy a civilization during the war, which is being viewed as a war crime by the Third World. He concludes by calling for a 50% reduction in the military budget, a halt to weapons development, and the rechanneling of those resources to help the American homeless.|LOVING COUNTRY OR JUSTICE : U.S. MILITARISM AND THE GULF WAR / Ramsey Clark. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark speaks on the contradiction between the stated principles of American Democracy and the actions of the United States during the Gulf War, 1990-1991. He begins by pointing out how the celebrity status of T.E. Lawrence is false, and he actually sold out Iraq for English interests. The United States opposition to the Iraq invasion of Kuwait, he argues, is not a consistent response to agression around the world. The conscience we developed about the brutality of war during Vietnam has been lost. The United States sought to destroy a civilization during the war, which is being viewed as a war crime by the Third World. He concludes by calling for a 50% reduction in the military budget, a halt to weapons development, and the rechanneling of those resources to help the American homeless. RECORDED: KPFA, Mar. 1991.
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